Question Hello Gramps. I’m nearly 18, and I am going through the stress of college applications. I feel so unprepared. I feel terrified and hopeless. I sometimes feel like I was never meant to live this long, and that I shouldn’t be here, and...

Question Dear Gramps, How can I overcome feelings of low self-esteem? Every so often I am plagued by these feelings and it is getting me down. I am an active member and try to act as the Saviour would. I read my scriptures and pray daily. It seems that whenever I...

Question Gramps, There are many examples in the scriptures of men being witnesses and of seeing Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I’m not a knowledgeable person and I have a simple testimony, but I feel that women are second class citizens in this church. Are...

Question Dear Gramps, I haven’t been exercising my faith lately and I started suffering from depression. I read that I can ask for a blessing, but I don’t feel worthy, not at all. So I wish I changed and know I need help, yet I don’t feel like I...

Question Gramps, How can I know when I am worthy to and have sufficient faith to receive the Second Comforter? Yearning Answer Dear Yearning, Receiving the Second Comforter, or parting the veil and conversing with the Lord face to face, comes with an assurance...

Question Gramps, This may seem silly, but I was an active 67-year-old man. Seven months ago I got my left arm paralyzed and my life has changed. There is a big part of me that wishes to die so I can be made whole again. What difference does it make if I live a few...

Question Gramps, What’s the difference between purity and righteousness? Marilyn Answer Dear Marilyn, Your question is very short, and thus it is hard to discern your intent. Forgive me if I have misunderstood you. At first glance, some might say there...

Question Dear Gramps, Of what value is great physical beauty if the inside is what’s important? Why did the Lord even create great physical beauty when He only looks upon and judges us according to the heart? He must have had a reason or else He would not...

My dear friend has been having a lot of trials lately. It seems everytime something is set to go well life pulls back and says “gotcha!” As a result her outlook on life is bleak and I can feel her losing faith. I remember reading a scripture about our...

Question Gramps, I just read your response to the mother about short skirts and modesty. Modesty is a matter of attitude. A girl can be dressed from neck to floor in a loose fitting gunny sack and still be immodest. The church is now airbrushing sleeves onto...

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